Nudie Reads

Harry Houdini wrote a book debunking spiritualism and mediums. It is filled with precise, polite yet brutal takedowns. The Handcuff King who left school at 8 wasn't just the world's greatest escapolog...

7 Okt 202124min

Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow from 1819 remains a beloved spooky fun story 200 years later. He knew New York State better than most, even wrote a biography of NY. But he's best loved for...

3 Okt 202145min

Joan of Arc should never have been tried for heresy, much less found guilty and burned at the stake. What does it take to overturn a sham trial? 20 years and very blunt language that obliterates the p...

30 Sep 202115min

Oscar Wilde's children's stories were heavy on sorrow and emotion - not the usual modern childhood fare. As with all his writing, though, they are great literary works including the deceptively titled...

26 Sep 202131min

Richard Feynman was an American theoretical physicist and he didn't like junk science or junk scientists. In 1974 he gave a commencement address to Caltech graduates telling them not to be junk. Great...

23 Sep 202128min

Jane Austen is an English literature giant. Her second novel Pride & Prejudice is 🐐 of romance and an astute social observation of manners and marriage and class. It's not chick lit. It's truly great...

19 Sep 202131min

Alfred Hitchcock was the master of suspense film-making. Psycho, anyone? 😱 He understood fear and the secret pleasure of it. And in 1949 he wrote about it. Great writing from a visual genius. 🏴󠁧󠁢�...

16 Sep 202121min

The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first spy-espionage manhunt thriller novel. Scotsman John Buchan was a gifted writer whose best-known work published 1915 introduced gentleman adventurer and foiler of das...

12 Sep 202133min